Too much to eat

Too much to eat

There is a Chinese idiom, K ǒ UDU ō sh í Gu ǎ, which means that many people eat, but there is little food. It comes from Han Yu's answer to Hu Sheng.

The origin of Idioms

Han Yu's answer to Hu Sheng Shu in Tang Dynasty: "the more self-directed, the more mouth, the less food."

Idiom usage

On the eve of liberation, six members of my family were living in this small city. They had too much to eat and could not even eat three meals a day.

Analysis of Idioms

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